Museum of Ho Chi Minh City: A Photo Guide On What To See In This Historic Museum

Museum of Ho Chi Minh City

Convinced of
Vietnam’s historical potential, you’re bound to search Saigon for another humbling museum that can
shed more inspiration to why it is a good city in Asia to visit. Seen at the
book corner side of Lý
Tự Trọng and Nam Kỳ Khởi Nghĩa streets, the two hectares Ho
Chi Minh City Museum or Gia Long Palace is one
excellent museum that encompasses a lot of historical and culturual insights
about Vietnam.

At first, you would possibly
mistaken this as the War Remnants Museum, because
not only does it have an uncanny resemblance of the museum's entrance – seeing
all the military hardware jets and tanks, it also is at a corner side of one
of the busy streets in Vietnam's capital. But with a closer look, you’ll
noticed the French Indochina infusions
around the building's exteriors. It's unusually cool and clean compared to
other museums in Vietnam and only distinctive to the Ho Chi Minh City Museum.

Inside, you’ll be surprised to discover
that the HCMC Museum has well preserved archaeological artefacts, ceramics, coins
and currencies, uniforms, timeworn city maps and displays on the marriage
traditions of its various ethnicities. The domineering museum staircase, with a
beautiful balcony just at the further tip of the apex is also an indoor
highlight.

The Museum of Ho Chi Minh City is
one of the very few museums in Vietnam that covers and is capable of pulling of
excellent exhibitions, collections, and activities such as conferences, special
events, social activities, and topical talks. It’s certainly one of the first
must visit museums when in Vietnam.

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Bowdy is an amateur adventurer, a coffee sleepyhead, and a start-up rooter, with a penchant for classic-looking photos. At last count, he has visited some 52 countries, and is now living in Singapore. He's always in search of fascinating routines to exploit, within the edges of after-office hours and (un)limited holidays.